Twitter app does not allow me to turn off background app refresh, draining my battery.

If Background App Refresh is off for all apps the switch for any specific app is meaningless, because all of them are off. But if you want to turn off Twitter anyway turn Background App Refresh ON at the top of that page, then you can turn Twitter off, then you can turn the switch at the top off again.

Background app refresh doesn’t stop all background activity, all it stops is apps “deciding” they want to do some processing, such as database maintenance, when they are not the active app. It doesn’t stop event driven background processing, such as responding to a notification. An app that receives a notification, such as a new post, is allowed to run to process that notification. It’s likely that Twitter got “stuck” on a notification. Considering the condition of Twitter at the moment that isn’t surprising.

i Don’t think it does. When I open Twitter I have to drag the screen down for it to update, and if it’s been done time it doesn’t download everything- I scroll to a point where it says “download more tweets”.

twitter has been draining my battery on the iPad - about 20% a day - while I’ve not been using it with background app refresh disabled at the device level. Shonky as ****.

Read the Apple Recommended post at the top of this page.

it says maybe a notification has got stuck. But they’re turned off too.

Whenever a tweet from a user that you are following is posted it will download to your phone, even if you have notifications off.